A Thousand More Verses (1912) (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu

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Books about Ancient, Classical and Medieval Poetry begin with the ancient epic poetry of Babylon and Greece. Poetry did not flourish in the Middle Ages, but experienced re-birth during the Renaissance. Titles include: Aristotle on the Art of Poetry, A Study of the Anglo-Saxon Poem, The Harrowing of Hell; Dissertation, Beowulf, an Old English Poem, Translated into Modern Rhymes, Das neue Leben; La Vita Nova, Homer. The Odyssey, Sonnets from Marcus Aurelius, Homer. The Odyssey, Longmans English Classics. Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome, Lucretius, epicurean and poet, and Selections from ancient Irish poetry.

Books about American Poetry present the poetry written by American poets, who first gained world prominence during the 19th century, and have presented a distinctly American world view. Titles include: An Ode to Harvard, and Other Poems, Canzoni of Ezra Pound, Edgar Allan Poe, Cape Cod, Edward MacDowell; a great American tone poet, his life and music, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Harlem Shadows; The Poems of Claude McKay, Pocahontas, and Other Poems, Longfellow's Poetical Works, and Leaves of grass.

Titles presenting Biographies or Autobiographies about Literary personages, include authors, poets, screenwriters, journalists, and essayists ranging from the famous to the obscure. These include: Henry David Thoreau, Peter Henry Ling, Elisha Bartlett, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Dickens, Horatio Greenough, John Milton, Christopher Marlowe, Dante, Rousseau, Chateaubriand, Balzac , Stendhal, Sand-Musset, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Verlaine, Zola, Sir Walter Scott, Bentley, Wordsworth, Fitzgerald, Goethe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Byron, Robert Burns, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oscar Wilde, Amiel, Tolstoy, Pater, Newman, Rabindranath Tagore, Walt Whitman, Shakespeare, Seneca, John Donne, Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, George Herbert, Victor Hugo and Robert Sanderson.